federal emergency management agency

1. 1.

   an independent agency of the United States government that provides a single point of accountability for all federal emergency preparedness and mitigation and response activities

   SynonymsFEMA

   Broaderindependent agency

   Part ofDepartment of Homeland Security

Questions about federal emergency management agency

What does federal emergency management agency mean?

federal emergency management agency means "an independent agency of the United States government that provides a single point of accountability for all federal emergency preparedness and mitigation and response activities".

What is another word for federal emergency management agency?

Close synonyms include FEMA. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is federal emergency management agency a common word?

federal emergency management agency is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.